Description

This story set in verse and prose follows a young imaginative girl and her dog Trixie as they ready their cabin in the woods for the wonder of Christmas and the arrival of the reindeer. Emily busies herself with special projects, Christmas baking, colorful paper cutouts, her book of Polish fairy tales, and crafting little people. All is in preparation for the coming of Christmas eve when Emily and Trixie will bundle up and go out into the snow, looking for the coming of the reindeer.

This book touches on perennial values of hearth and home, tradition, goodwill, and the wonders of the imagination.